June 2015

There were 2 posts published in June 2015.

Last week for RWAV studio

Here comes the final week for the RWAV studio 🙁 I get a lot more than I expected from the studio. I enjoy how we work as real radio producers and presenters instead of students throughout the semester. I enjoy how we run a radio show from the beginning of generating ideas to the end we walked into the studio with our runsheet and script. Even for the feature piece, we struggled with an idea at first. There were so many topics we want to explore. Unlike working on a university based assessment, the only thing we needed to consider is the possibility and ease to get it done. Yet for the feature piece we are aiming to get it played on air to the listeners of RWAV. The thing came to the interest and benefits for listeners.

I have been working with my groupmates throughout the semester and I really love them. Tim is like a leader in the team; keep us on the schedule and he is capable of everything from panel operating to sound editing. Nora always comes up with some unexpected ideas that make our work perfect. Bella cheers everybody up in the group and she is very encouraging. She is good at all the talking in the group no matter during discussion or at RWAV 🙂

Another memorable thing I learnt is that everyone’s role at a production is important; everyone is working in their responsibilities to get the show run smoothly. Presenters set the mood and quality of the radio show to the listeners directly; yet the producer get things organised and well prepared right before the show while the panel operator also carry a significant role during the show to ensure the presenter’s voices and every single songs go in a flow. I believe our group did a real kick-ass job throughout the semester 🙂

 

Our Second show on RWAV, Triple R

Me & Tim Bella & Nora

IT WAS MY TURN TO BE A PRESENTER!

I did once on air on SYN FM when I was at Foundation. That was pretty awful when I listened back to it. I am always nervous when talking in front of people and this time in front of a mic I got pressure to give instantaneous response and I mumble a lot whenever I am worried. I practised the script and read the runsheet over and over again before the show. Having a script made me feel secured but I began to worry that I would sound like reading from script (as Elizabeth mentioned about the last show). Me and Tim didn’t really get to run through the whole thing once before the actual show because our interviewees weren’t settled down until two days before the show. The whole thing was nerve cracking until the day I sat in the studio and put on the headphones. It was really fun and interesting to be a presenter. Thanks for Tim’s lead and Bella’s encouragement. Tim sounds very fluent and natural on air. I wasn’t doing really well to engage with the interviewee during the interviews and that was the thing I need to improve. We listened to Elizabeth’s advices on sharing questions between both presenters in the interview. When I listened back the show, I feel like the interaction is really stronger when both presenters are participating and sharing ideas rather than just one presenter was only responsible for one’s interview. Besides, it was all out first time to conduct a phone interview and luckily it didn’t go wrong. For me, I felt more comfortable doing a phone interview instead of a live one in studio.  As Josie said, I was able to gesture more expressively and I put more attention on the interviewee’s responses since there was only his voice I can focus on. I guess the show ran smooth and everything sticked to our runsheet.

 

I really enjoy working with Tim, Bella and Nora. They are all very helpful and I learnt a lot from them. Guys I am looking forward to our third show 🙂